How about grubbing around to give them a squadron's worth of BAC Strikemasters and a few F.5A Freedom (from the hated English) Fighters to defend their sacred air space?
Where does Comrade Salmond intend to build his Presidential Palace by the way? Rumour has it he's been toying with photographs of one of Saddam's former abodes. Only the best will do.
Shades of Animal Farm.